Amazing Successes for our Bastion Learning Commons (AKA Library)

Congratulations Bastion!  We made over $2100 at the Festival du livre and thus we were able to save $850 towards our $1200 purchase of great French books.  A reminder that the English Book Fair is the first week of December. Thank you to parents Ravonne Foulger, Tanja Hamilton, Mae Dodge and son Isaac for their amazing help.  We will need more volunteers for the next Book Fair, so please contact me, teacher-librarian Shannon Murrells-Allaway if you can assist.

Family Library Day is up and running every Wed. after school til 2:45pm.  Thank you Theda Gyimesi for continuing this great tradition.  Families can sign out up to five extra books, read with their children, and continue to build our reading culture.

"200 Nights of Reading" started Oct 28th thank you to the amazing help of parent Ravonne Foulger.  Her design adjustment and photocopy hours are much appreciated.  Drop off completed sheets to the "200 Nights of Reading" drop box in the learning commons.  We will celebrate the first 100 nights with book marks, and 200 nights with a new book choice for your household!

Warm wishes and happy reading to all, Shannon Murrells-Allaway

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go.”— Dr. Seuss, “I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!”

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Mme Jesse's Class is Studying Sunflowers/Tournesols

Tournesol/sunflower seed germination (0:35):

A teacher's potted tournesol/sunflower growth and bloom (0:44):

The tournesol/sunflower head blooming (1:06):

 

Roderick Haig-Brown Salmon Run Field Trips Begin ...

Oct 7th, a few classes head west to the Roderick Haig-Brown Park to view the salmon run - a "dominant year."

" Every fourth year is a “dominant” salmon run, with millions of fish to be seen (2014 and 2018 will be dominant runs). The Adams River Salmon Society coordinate the celebration known as the “Salute to the Sockeye” during the dominant years. The following years are “sub-dominant” runs of sockeye: 2015, 2019. These years often have substantial returns of sockeye and offer excellent viewing opportunities. During the last three weeks of October in years where there isn’t a “dominant” or “sub-dominant” return, a small number of salmon begin their spawning cycle. The best place to view spawning salmon will be on the new viewing platform  approximatley 300m west of the the parking lot."  Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park 

Video footage by impressed tourists:

And get more great information from the Adams River Salmon Society

A salmon Haiku for you - as poetry simply makes a day richer!

Source: http://www.fauntleroywatershed.org/education/lessonplans/salmon_activities_haiku.pdf